Cool things:
Oooh, a map of the JLA Watchtower! I love that kind of stuff!
Superman loses the blue hue somewhere in there. That's an improvement.
Less cool things:
Still not terribly fond of Zauriel. Although the scene with the nuns kicking his butt was kind of cool. :)
More of the New Gods. (I haven't gotten around to looking them up yet.) Although these specific two, Orion and Barda, seem tolerable.
Things that made me laugh:
Aquaman in polka-dot suspenders, hee!
The villains shooting their river raft because they think it's Plastic Man.
Questions:
The big one--why is Wonder Woman now Hippolyta instead of Diana? The blurb at the front of the book says "in penance for her role in [Diana's] death" but I'm pretty sure it's Diana again in the JLA books my daughter reads now. Looks like a case of the afterlife's revolving door, but I'm curious about the details.
Superman says that Plastic Man is more versatile than Elastic Man--does that have to do with the specifics of their respective powers or with imagination? I would tend to assume the latter because Plastic Man is just nuts, or should I say creative, and from what little I've seen of Elastic Man he doesn't get so much into the shapes. (And I seem to recall reading about Jimmy Olsen being a stretchy hero when I was a kid, or was that one of DC's famous Imaginary Tales?)
All right, so the JLA communicates via a telepathic link through Martian Manhunter. First of all, that's a little creepy, unless he only goes to a particular depth with it? Second, do they have a back-up communication system? In "Camelot" they lose him, which means they lose group communication. You'd think they'd pack a just-in-case walkie-talkie or something
2 comments:
Some answers:
When Diana died Zeus made her the Goddess of Truth. She couldn't get the hang of putzing around on Mt. Olympus while her friends and family got themselves into various sorts of trouble so she got special dispensation to come back to Earth. At the end of Byrne's run on WW, the next author decided that the whole thing was a bad idea and had her casually renounce godhood and return to the status quo. I think she also renounced her immortality, but later authors seem to have ignored that bit.
The other questions really come down to author fiat. Plastic man is generally written as a shapechanger while Ralph just stretches. Sometimes the JLA has a back-up communication system, sometimes they don't. It depends on what's convenient for a particular plot.
Oh, and from earlier posts, Zauriel is a new Morrison creation who never really caught on and wasn't used very many other places. Superman turned blue due to getting caught in an energy blast from an experiment gone wrong (if I remember correctly)and got changed back pretty for no good reason. The mechanics were pretty obviously less important than the plot of Superman figuring out his new powers. And Wonder Woman's white costume was a homage to her awful white outfits from the period in the 70's when she had no powers. Her outfit in the new WW #1 is too.
Bill
Wow, thank you!
Now that you mention it, that white dress did have a "mod" look to it (apart from the stockings and garters, which no one was wearing back then :)). Although I suppose it doesn't really matter what WW wears, since you can't really hurt her so she's not gaining any particular protection from any outfit.
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